Asia Pacific influential leader, strategist & entrepreneur in Travel & Tourism (built $40M business), Education, FinTech/Payments, eCommerce (Developed marketplaces & Apps, digital advertising), franchising and problem solver for the past three decades heading up both private (Thomas Cook - MD; Indochina Services Travel Group - CEO), semi-Govt. (Emirates-dnata - BD) and Not-For-Profit organizations (PATA - CEO), franchising (Budget Rent-A-Car - Reg. Dir), as well as business re-engineering and hands-on "Mr. Fix-it" consultant for a number of companies (Illusions Online - Dubai; SOTA - Malaysia; GolfAsian) and mentor-coach for start-ups (Smoove Xperience, Jungl.com, STEM Learning Lab; TripXtra; isWhere.com; Tineri; Travelbook ). Advisor and fundraiser on a number of infrastructure & property development/crypto projects.